Adam embarks on his next multi-stage build project: a 1/12 scale working recreation of a mechanical vault door! Inspired by his recent acquisition of an automatic hacksaw that can cut the solid cast iron cylinder that will become the vault door, Adam pulls from his extensive research into the operation and gearing of these doors to start making his scaled replica. The first step: machining the central ring and spur gears from which the locking pins will activate the vault lock!
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When I read the title, I thought that Adam was recreating a Fallout vault door given how nicely that show has popped off.
I thought the same
I knew that it would be either a Fallout door, yes, or it would be exactly this, a solid metal mechanical miniature of a seemingly mundane thing haha. Those are the two possible options with Mr Savage.
Indeed. Especially if it was from the real fallouts, fallout 1 and 2. Those doors were epic looking. The Bethesda vault doors are okay, but they lack the charm of the originals. What would be epic, would be to have the claw from FO1 or 2 come out from the side, engage the center, and roll the door open on the floor track. I would pay a fair amount of money to see one done correctly. Maybe not enough to have someone custom make one, as i imagine the man hours would kill a project like that. I doubt i could get a maker to make a metal fallout vault door for $500 or less. The labor alone would be worth more than $500. But i guy can dream. Maybe somebody with a decent CNC machine could make one for that price, but even then, a lot of the work would be hand fitting and designing. Unless the maker were going to make a run of, say 100 or so, the design time would kill the project.
i would expect adam to be a fallout nerd too. but considering the cool things he has done, and will do, nerd in the dictionary should read: Nerd: (See adam)
going with the algorythm
I’ll be honest, I was expecting fallout vault 33 door, but this is way cooler.
Same but vault 13.
Same, but vault 111.
Same. I saw Vault door and thought Adam took his love of gears to a whole new level.
Same. Certainly wasn't the vault door I was expecting, but OK, i'm in for the journey.
You're not alone
Machinist Adam: "yeah, I'll get rid of those. It needs to be perfect" Propmaker Adam: "you know what? If I flip it over, noone will be able to see it". It's just fun seeing the mindsets interact like that. :D
perfect observation!
I worked as a model and prop maker for about 15 years and a very commonly used phrase in the business is "If you can't see it, it isn't there"
@@AxisBold1 It's the exact same with 3D art and assets for games :D
It might be the difference between profession and hobby. I'm not sure Adam did much machining for props, and when making props I get the impression that being on the clock and getting things done was super important. I only realized this recently with my profession. A lack of perfection and more happy that my work does what it's supposed to do. But stuff for my hobbies has no clock. I'm not charging anyone for my time. I can take all of the time I want and be as big of a perfectionist as I want.
I had a situation like that where the vanity doors of my bathroom cabinet got damaged on the upper edge. I thought I'd have to replace the entire vanity as there would be no way to match the doors. My friend Dave says "take the doors off and put them back upside down". Beautiful out of the box thinking!
"half a tenth of a millimeter" LMFAO god Adam never fails to make me laugh with his relationship of measurements
You can safely eyeball a half.
So a twentieth of a millimeter
@@johnraitt2555 We metric folk just call it 0.05 mm, or 50 micron. 😄
"The idea of 1 half pint of an inch squared" - Metric is the vastly superior measurement system.
Yeah but freedom units has FREEDOM built into it @@spankyjeffro5320
Fun fact. In industrial gear boxes that run at hundreds of RPM for years at a time, we actively seek out gear tooth combinations with no common factors, preferring prime numbers of gear teeth. These sets of gears wear more evenly over time. Definitely not the same design constraints that drove the gear tooth counts for vault doors!
I worked as a bank teller for a couple years at the start of my career. I always got a thrill when I got to set the clocks on the vault doors at closing in the evenings. This was less than 10 years ago, and it blew my mind that such primitive mechanical technology was still the best way to ensure things were secure even in our modern digital age.
mecanical things seem to be more reliable / resistant to disturbances from outside theres a saying : to make misstakes is human but to make a great big mess you need a computer
Mechanical devices can't be hacked. You need to physically be there to break in. I come from an IT background, and my favorite professor used to say the only way to prevent a computer from being hacked would be to encase it in concrete.
Sometimes you just can’t beat a good old fashioned chunk of steel
@@controllerpleb6568 Magnets and pokey things can disturb them if poorly designed, but otherwise full agree. I've heard that along the lines of "There is no perfectly secure computer system, the closest you can get is one that is completely disconnected and buried in concrete"
It inspires me that you are 56 years old and still into engineering stuff and learning stuff. You made my childhood with myth busters program. And you still make me a happy person with your interest in this world. I hope you will love the things you are doing for a long time.
This is such a kind and sweet sentiment! I couldn’t agree more :)
Adam I know a man who is probably the last living installer and technician for Diebold and Mosler round vault doors. He owns a business that deals exclusively with used and antique safes from the late 1880s into the 1980s. I’ve worked with him in the past and was a wealth of information.
My dad worked for Mosler. He left the company and helped Marlin Smith start Smith Banc Equipment, many years later Marlin sold the company and my dad continued to work for the new company. Marlin started up another company Smith Hamilton. Marlin passed away in 2020. My dad Jim Arnett passed away in 2021. My dad was one of the best out there. When a bank needed someone to break open their vault he was the one they called on. He worked for 30 yrs. After he retired many still called him to open up old safes. I have a lot of cool stories about him.
watching Adam enjoying playing with his ring piece makes me smile
Oh, now......
@@jmurray886 what?
Comment of the day 👏
You have got to be from the UK hahaha
@@hadawaco me? Yes indeedy, what gave me away?
This is super awesome, but you know everyone wants to see you pull off a Fallout vault door next.
The Lock Picking Lawyer 😮 my dorky world's collide
Nice 👍🏻 Yea i was gonna post that Adam should chat to Deev! (Deviant Ollam for those reading who may not know).
I simply cannot wrap my head around Adam not owning a horizontal band saw. Inconceivable!
I remember about a month ago there was a video talking about how he thiught the porta-ban was the most dangerous tool in his shop, so i would imagine that danger would scale up a lot for the floor model.
Right!?
@@TheGruntMeisterI own a porta-band also, and also consider it a dangerous tool to be used only when nothing else will do the job. I literally haven't used it in several years now. The horizontal band saw, however, is one of the safest, most versatile, and most used machines I own.
@@edbennett8257 Agreed. I used to cut heavy steel angle iron and box iron on one and I did it so long I learned everything about the machine. It's very easy to get into a routine where your hands are never anywhere near the moving blade. It had a vise mounted in the bed, so you'd clamp your piece and never turn it on until lowering the blade. Very useful tool.
think he has a portaband , think i saw it in the background on the intro video of his mecanica hacksaw that said trying to cut through a round object on a bandsaw is not eazy as the piece wants to roll along with the direction of the sawblade and that can cause it to bind up or at least jump away from the saw verry unexpentingly , it can be cone if you clamp it intoo sumting with a wide flat base , but that that works in the mecanical hacksaw too
3 careers back, I worked at a radio station which was located in a former bank branch building. Their record vault was the actual vault.
I presume the stations played mostly gold & platinum records? I could under stand why those records were stored in a vault! /sarc!
@@guytech7310 Nice one! 😂😂
There’s a H&M here in Dublin (Ireland) that is occupying an old bank, and downstairs in the man’s section, there’s a room that used to be the vault, but they kept the door. It’s a huge, square, heavy, thick metal door and it has the pins protruding. It’s really cool
There is a guitar store in Morristown Tennessee called Guitar Vault. It was an old bank and they kept the door.
I think anyone who sets up in an ex bank will choose to do the same. Setting aside it looks cool, as Adam mentioned its a HUGE difficult- and probably very expensive task to get a vault removed. Its so much simpler to just repurpose the room.
You have to love Adam Savage! He is brilliant, and he loves to share that with people in a way that everyone can understand. On top of that, he never stops smiling with laughter mixed in.
Love this.😊 I literally open up and almost 100 year old round vault door every morning. That still works beautifully and almost no change since the day it was new. I call it the highlight of my day.
That is awesome!
I may be mistaken, but I suspect it's built that way because base 12 is one of those numbers that makes for convenient math (being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6), which is why we divide time in 12's, 24's, and 60's, and circles into 360 degrees. (60 being especially convenient because it adds in divisibility by 5.) So in other words, having it in base 12 means you can evenly split it in half, 3rds, quarters, or 6ths, and since circles are already measured into 360 degrees, using base 12 means it's easy to design for a circle. So they probably didn't say "we need to design this so it'll work well on a dividing head", but rather dividing heads are built the way they are for "math reasons", and the vault is designed that way for the same math reasons.
That was what I thought too,
Yea, it's a so-called abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors is greater than the number itself (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16). Well, it's abundant, highly abundant, superabundant, and highly composite. In short, it's a very versatile number lol Circle division, cock faces, calendars, etc., it's been around for a long time.
153 isn't prime, and I determined that almost instantly with a little math trick. If you add up all the digits of a number, and then do that again (if necessary, over and over) until you have a single digit (the "digital root" of the original number), if that remaining digit is divisible by 3 (that is to say a 3, 6 or 9), then the original number is divisible by 3. In this case 1 + 5 + 3 = 9 so it is divisible by 3 and not prime. Another example would be 23643: 2+3+6+4+3 = 18 and 1+8 = 9, so it is also divisible by 3.
Oh That makes my brain happy, thank you for teaching that!
Ooh that's awesome! Thank you. I just pulled out a Calc real quick and hit /9 as a guess and saw nope not prime
Yep! I had the same reaction. "Hold on, I know a trick...nope." After a second I also realized it's 150 (easily divisible by 3) plus 3.
This is awesome!
I just mentally went. “153. 50x3 + 1x3”. Nope. Not prime. I’d forgotten that other trick Hopefully I won’t forget it again!
43 years ago my dad worked in an old historic city building that had a walk in vault and nobody nobody knew the combination, luckily the door was opened (I was 15) and by taking the lock apart was able to figure out the combo. I then bey my dads friend $25 that he can lock me in there and I could get out with the lights out as well. Of course I did. // Always loved locks and safes as well!! **Great job Adam**
The amount of positive endorphins released into the World when Adam put the big cog in is enough to make the sun shine and lift everyone's mood 12 notches. Thank You
Love the addition of the drums during the tedious bits!
As satisfying as the time lapse was seeing the grooves being cut in, seeing the wide view time lapse Adam working on the mill made me appreciate it even further.
I worked in IT traveling to community banks for over 30 years. I always loved the mech of vault doors. One particular door that I was most amazed by was over 12 feet in diameter and was hauled in by horse teams. All the brass and jewelled parts are beautiful.
Congratulations! I 100% understand your excitement after cutting the gear 🎉
Happy to see all the coolest people here! :D
Adam Savage starring as Tony Montana "sayhellotomylilfrend"
Great to see you here Stefan!
Milling metal is just an art form in itself! I personally don’t have the patience nor the machinery to do even the simplest project, but I love it when a plan comes together! Can’t wait to see the whole door! Such an endeavor! Your excitement runs through all of us I think!
I live in Vegas. I have seen them. Demolish a small bank. And all that was left. Was the VAULT. It sat on the property. For at least a year. No BS I drove by it 2 times a day. The vault is so heavy duty. Even the DEMO crew . Won't mess with it.
Hold my beer
There were vaults left standing after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Do you know how sentences work?
@@christopherdean1326I think it's Christopher Walken. Or possibly Captain Kirk.
@@robadams1645reading it in walken’s voice makes it infinitely better 😂
There is an episode of Mythbusters where Jamie was annoyed by Adams feet tapping. You can hear him tap his feet in this video signaling just how excited he is about vault doors 😁
People will look at that thing and think "that's nothing special" but little do they realise a man who can make that, can change the world, and innovations like that, have had massive impacts on progression of our society. Tasty work adam.
As soon as he said "dollhouse scale" my mind started really going. It's time to build that dollhouse!
You have always been one of my idols from when myth busters first aired when I still wet the bed to even know when I just had my first kid... I will always aspire to be more like you!! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do!! You inspire the world!! Thank you
Getting a job in machine operation is the first step. It’s entry-level and they’re ALWAYS hiring. It’s a dying art, especially since illegals will do the same jobs for $3-$5 less per hour most times. Don’t wait on it…
God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please give your lives to him, he loves you, is coming back soon, and really wants to take us all with him🙏♥️
Adam, you never cease to amaze. From your selection of a non-copyright version of "Wrench & Numbers" to your honesty about mistakes that happen to ALL of us hobbyist machinists. Keep up the great work.
Seeing you happy Adam, makes me happy too. As a machinist ive always dreamt of having my own shop. One day maybe but your videos along with Inheritance Machining keep my machining vibes turning!!
I used to work on a large estate and we had a workshop that was in the former wine cellar vault, complete with a large heavy vault door. We always keep it open but... One day it shut and was locked and an irate and unstable staff member took a sledge hammer to the combination dial. (Yes, they are designed clearly to prevent getting through that way!} Luckily only a week before i was curious about how the mechanism worked and took it apart to study it. When we realized the door was permanently damaged we had the guy from the auto shop bring a torch over and cut a hole at just the right place so i could fit my hand in to access the mechanism and work it backwards and blind and finally get it opened! Great puzzle challenge that was!
My wedding ring has gears on it. When you dropped the center ring in.. I felt that emotionally. It represents the effort one should put into a relationship for me. Thanks for sharing your joy with us.
Lol what
@@philmcclenaghan7056 use your noggin m8
@@philmcclenaghan7056😂
one tip, Adam, the likely reason for 24 pins, is that only 12 are used 'routinely', aka the 'lock', the others go to a glass plate, ie: insert the new film "the Italian job"- with mark Walberg as the main, and Charlie Theron as the 'locksmith' and the "glass re-locker" principle, if tampered with these weld it shut, thwarting any cracking attempt. The logic is simple, you can only see one gear; I surmise that there are two rings, co-axially mounted on that ring, one for this re-locker, the other for the main set.
I love the sound of gears running on each other.
Just that ring gear in itself is a great fidget toy
And when he adds the locking pins it will also be a great fidget toy.
I find so much appreciation in Adam for my love of science. From good old Mythbusters to his more recent shop videos. And watching him very slowly loose his razor sharp edge with age is saddening, however he is still so incredibly smart and creative. We all love you Adam, keep handing out smiles man
Its videos like this that remind us what a treasure you are Adam. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
"there's gonna be a fair bit of preamble, so strap in" *salutes* Yessir! I am ready!
As someone with an enthusiasm for clockwork mechanisms and complex mechanical interactions, I was very happy to see this title on my feed
Adam, your joy in doing what you do is infectious. I really appreciate you taking the time to share these videos.
You're one of my favorite people, outside of my friends and family. I'm happy to someone like you so happy. Kids at heart, creating and doing good
Hi Adam. Thank you for posting this clip today. Im having a really shitty day. But seeing your enthusiasm and utter glee at machining teeth and making your safe door has been a really nice positive breath of fresh air. Im an ex machinist, so i totally get your excitement of making chips and swarf and setting things up in a mill or lathe. I so miss taking a blank hunk of steel and turning into a functional thing of beauty. Keep up the good work. Youd be surprised at the number of us out here who are getting enjoyment through you vicariously. Thank you.
No.
Adam, I bet for the same reason you love mechanical vaults that you’d also love the latch systems on spacecraft hatches. Lots of rotary-to-translational systems as well as some spherical coordinate system over center latch mechanisms. Add in some engineered compliances for effort management. Lots of cool bits!
He built an Apollo era hatch door!!
20:38 the most satisfying feeling imaginable. First try!
Adam has been part of my life since a child, it sad that we all get old :(
Ok, so I am 1/3 in, and I love how Adam machines everything. I guess the 3D print person in me would design this in cad, 3D print it, see it work, and then go mill it out of cast iron (if I was a machinist). Love it.
Love to see someone geek out over the beauty of math in things like this !!! 😊 I worked in construction of varying types for years and i had one boss that would yell numbers across a jobsite out of the blue I'd yell back the answer he was looking for out of my head. Since I knew what he was doing (usually something entirely different than me) i knew what he was looking for. Division or subtraction or whatever. It was his party trick. It was fun. I of course used it frequently for myself as the boss but it's not as hilarious to see I'd imagine. I'm very jealous of your tattoo and would love to do something similar. Can't just copy you without your permission !!!
Adam is a maker and believes in open source. I am positive he would be fine with you getting the same tat. He sells temporary versions of his tattoo as well. Bring it in to a shop and get er done
Adam's joy is contagious! It makes me think of all of the discoveries and inventions that humans have made throughout time and how those folks must have felt when figuring it out and "getting it right".
Chef's kiss on the tiny gear cutter 😂
You made some of my favourite child hood memories
I came for the Fallout vault door. But I stayed for the shop fun! Adam rocks!
Thank you for having the fantastic idea to let us come along with your process! I feel a loss that I know there were times when you did things like this in private and the world will never get to share your joy in figuring something out.
Adam, you the MAN!!! Awesome to see how to make gears and what goes into it all. The ratios, precision and measurements. I honestly wish I could learn to do these things myself. What a true inspiration to people to learn a new trade and skill. I'll be 40 in a couple weeks and I can't stress it enough to my kids that trade skills are our future. Severely lacking in certain generations in my opinion. Thank you good Sir.
I don't know if @DeviantOllam counts as a vault historian but if not then he probably knows someone who is.
Adam Savage is truly one of god's own muppets when he's excited or happy.
I want to be Adam Savage when I grow up, that gear system is art can't wait to see finished door
I am a tech at Vault-Tec; The Vault doors we make are in the shape of a spur gear. To open the door the door pulled back onto a gear rack & is rotatated out of the way using the gear rack as track. Quite amazing to see when it opens & closes.
How can you build a vault door and it not be Fallout themed
What is Fallout?
Because vault doors existed before even the idea of Bethesda as a gaming studio...
he did the stuff for starfield i'd love to see him make a Vault door from Fallout. lol.
Adam's enthusiasm is so infectious! I need to get into the workshop...
Congratulations Adam. I love watching stuff like this and to see your enjoyment makes it that much better.
I was really really really hoping this was a fallout vault door build. Still cool, but not quite as cool.153 is divisible by 3 yea?
I expected this to be Fallout with the timing of it
Same
I am really happy to see you got the metal that you purchased from me and are doing a really cool project with that. I have been wanting to make some gears for a while now.
You remind me so much of my best mate, who I doubt I could live without. Even look a bit like him. You seem quite .. manic today. Love ya Savage!
Always a pleasure to see you create, even if I thought Vault Door was referring to Fallout Shelter Vault Door, not money vault door! Gears interlocking together seamlessly is always a treat
I was able to see the inside of a round vault door, and the gears interacting with each other was just a joy to watch. I wish it had happened more recently, so I could take pictures, but it was long before the cell phone.
I really love ho enthusiastic you are about your work Adam! Never change, you are incredible! God bless you brotha! Also, just wanna say, you're incredibly smart. The stuff you make is really incredible!
I love when Adam gets excited about something moderately obscure. :)
Adam has the coolest shop hands down. Nobody is even close.
My high school was in a former bank building and one of the classrooms was in a vault. The vault door was still there and had been anchored open. It was fantastic.
Adam is a national treasure
I totally understand how there is 20 years worth of inspiration behind this piece... Awesome mechanism.
Savage, you the man. Also Huge props for nailing that gear fitting on the first try.
Growing up in San Francisco was great, but working in or around Mr. Adam Savage could be better than any lottery jackpot.🎉🎉🎉
I made some sway bar links out of 416 stainless hex rod the other day. Centre-punched, hand-drilled, and tapped beautifully. It was really nice to work with.
Thank you for getting back to building "MAKING"
Your enthusiasm as you build is infectious! Also, thank you so much for putting this kind of content into the world. ✌️
"I'm so happy!" all you need was a fluffy unicorn to jump up and down with when you said that - love that feeling when things go to plan!
Adam I gotta say man I’m so envious of your shop. The amount of projects I could do… man. I don’t know how often I’d leave.
Worked in banks as facility engineer for years and have seen many different doors. The older the more ornate and decorated but I think anyone who is mechanical will be fascinated by the precision and craftsmanship.
So awesome you mentioned the Lock picking Lawyer! Very cool
You could even turn some custom bolts for the 12T gears cam style so you can dial in the backlash perfectly. No matter what you do I’m sure it’ll be cool! Thanks for sharing Adam you’re the best!
That's cool! I love that feeling of, "Aaaaannnd...It works!"
Gorgeous work! I feel your pleasure about the amount of time and effort into making an item like that, and seeing it fit perfectly into the space it was designed for. Congrats!
So happy for you! I audibly laughed when you placed your gear into the other! Well done, friend!
Awesome project! Wish i could binge watch this build. Cant wait to see it completed
I love how the thing itself is so happy. Beautiful build 🤩
Hopefully Adam will make this a series so we can follow the entire build of a scale replica of that vault door.
Patiently awaiting a part two! can't wait to see this done :)
you know, one day Adam, i will have a shop like yours and learn all that you know and more. love the videos, keep them up for us! 👍
I love how far you've come Adam, been a fan since Mythbusters. Still out here doing what you love! You inspire me in many ways ♥
This is one the best things I've seen you do! Thanks.
I honestly think I'm geeking out over your success, every bit as hard as you are.
Oh, the satisfaction when machined parts come together and fit perfectly.
I think one of my favorite things in this video is the shot angle at about the 12 minute mark, where while I logically know it's the bed that is moving not the milling head, it (almost) looks like the head is the piece moving, having to look very closely at the background in relation to the "bracket" that holds the rotational axis tool to realize it's the bed itself moving. I just think it's a really neat trick of the camera.
Thats a lovely thing to make. Looking forward to seeing the rest. Damn though that's nice Adam👍
This screams for a colab (or spot consultation) with Clickspring. Loving it Adam!
Adam, we wouldnt compain if you built a full vault door, with a lock so as you can open and close it, a hinge, a "wall to set it into", you know the full shabang!! Would be really cool!